1981 Dasher

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mattbatson
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1981 Dasher

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I'm looking at one of these with plans to run it on a mixture of waste motor oil (filtered, of course) and diesel.

I ran a cummins like this for over 10 yrs with no problems. However, I'm aware that some diesel's injection pumps dont react well to this sort of thing.

Anyone with any experience with this?

Also, this particular car has 108K miles on it...anything I should look out for in particular when test driving it?
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With those miles, it should have had at least one timing belt change,
probably due for another.

Try to get a peek at the timing belt.
'91 Golf gasser converted to a 12mm pump, M-TDI.
'84 1.6TD Rabbit with a VNT-15 turbo, still setup to run on vegetable oil.
'84 GTI with 1.7TD pistons and intercooled.
2003 TDI wagon
2000 TDI Jetta.
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